Yu-Gi-Oh!

Yu-Gi-Oh!
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Yugi Mutou
遊☆戯☆王
(Yū Gi Ō)
Genre
Manga
Written byKazuki Takahashi
Published byShueisha
English publisher
ImprintJump Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Jump
English magazine
DemographicShōnen
Original runSeptember 17, 1996March 8, 2004
Volumes38 (List of volumes)
Novel
Written byKatsuhiko Chiba
Illustrated byKazuki Takahashi
Published byShueisha
ImprintJump J-Books
DemographicMale
PublishedSeptember 3, 1999
Anime television series
Anime films
Other series
Other media
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Yu-Gi-Oh! (Japanese: 遊☆戯☆王, Hepburn: Yū Gi Ō, lit.'Game King') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuki Takahashi. It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine between September 1996 and March 2004. The manga follows Yugi Mutou, a young boy with an affinity for games, who solves the ancient Millennium Puzzle. Yugi becomes host to a gambling alter-ego or spirit who solves his conflicts with various games. As the manga progresses, the focus largely shifts to the card game Duel Monsters (originally known as Magic & Wizards), where opposing players "duel" one another in mock battles of fantasy monsters.

The manga series has spawned a media franchise that includes multiple spin-off manga, anime series, video games, and a real-world card game, the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game, based on the fictional Duel Monsters game. The first anime series adaptation, simply titled Yu-Gi-Oh! and produced by Toei Animation, aired from April to October 1998, while the second one, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, produced by NAS and animated by Gallop, aired from April 2000 to September 2004.

Yu-Gi-Oh! has become one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.

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